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Word: dropping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of this sort of thing should suffice to bring the crews back to the physical peak necessary to end their season unbeaten. Bolles has a more humane theory of how to coach a crew than his Yale counterpart, Allen, Walz, a devotee of the work-em-till-they-drop school of though. While Harvard crewmen are allowed to sit around and dissipate most of the winter, the hardy Elis are out on the river, simulating Washington crossing the Delaware. Theoretically, this will make them strong to the point of invincibility come the Harvard-Yale four mile pull in 'late...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Adjourn to Red Top To Prepare for Yale Race | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

...want to learn something about the continental approach to romance, drop over to the Exeter theatre and see "Intermezzo." This ten year old film stars Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman whose polished performances redeem an otherwise implausible and dull story...

Author: By Roy M. Goodman, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/9/1949 | See Source »

Temperatures should drop about 15 degrees today, the Bureau forecast last night, but weather will continue fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Three days earlier, Shanghai's Nationalist defenders had announced: "We will fight to the last drop of blood." Most Shanghailanders fervently hoped that this promise would not be kept. They regarded the Nationalist cause as hopeless, and feared that a prolonged defense would bring nothing but pillage and destruction to the world's fourth* largest city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Communists Have Come | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...assistant in the Great Western, whose 1,500 miles of track tap six Midwestern states. Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings off 5.4% from 1948 (v. nearly a 10% average drop for all roads), Bill Deramus hopes to cut costs more by dieselizing the entire line by fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: At the Throttle | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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